The Politically Inclined Heretic comments on political and cultural news events on a daily or almost-daily basis from a thoughtful nonpartisan perspective.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

SOTU: Maybe Changing the Seating Wasn't a Great Idea

Our representatives on Capital Hill have reduced themselves to kids sitting at the school cafeteria lunch tables. Who, may we ask will be sitting with whom. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) apparently will be sitting with her "BFF." No friggin' way. Way dude. And she had "back ups" just in case Senator Olympia Snowe stood her up - "Johnny" and "Bob" (Senators John Isaacson and Bob Corker). I wonder how Isaacson and Corker will feel about Landrieu calling them "back ups."

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will sit with with "his good friend" (if I may use a term often used by senators from opposing sides of the aisle in the middle of a debate) Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee). and US Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) said he could sit with US Representative Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland). They "try to talk quite often." Try.

Show I vomit now or later. Who cares where they sit? Why don't they just pick their seats and let whoever sits next to them sit next to them? And don't tell us who is sitting next to whom. We're going to watch to hear what the president says, not to see who our local congressman or woman is sitting with.

About Me

I'm a college graduate with a B.A. in political science and a minor in journalism who worked for a local newspaper.
As my title suggests, I'm a political heretic with moderately conservative to a moderately conservative perspective though I have a great deal of respect for and adherence to the libertarian and radically centrist points of view as well.
If you wanted a breakdown politically, you could say I'm slightly right of center on foreign policy (with a strong affinity with the realist school of thought), slightly left of center on the cultural issues, and probably dead center on fiscal issues and the entitlements. But this is not entirely accurate either. Sometimes I go left and right at the same time on the same issue.
I am an independent republican (small "r") who has voted for Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Party candidates who has voted for candidates from the Republican, Democratic and third parties.